- Trembita
Infobox Instrument
name=Trembita
names=HS#:423.121-12
classification=
*Aerophone
range= c1-g4
related=
*Alpine horn
*Bucium
*Cossack Horn
*Alpenhorn Trembita ( _uk. Трембіта)- An Ukrainian alpine horn made of wood.
Used primarilly by mountain dwellers known as
Hutsuls in theCarpathians . It was used as a signaling device to announce deaths, funerals, weddings.The tube is made from a straight piece of pine or
spruce (preferably one that has been struck by lightning). This is split in two in order to carve out the core section. The sections are once again joined together and then wrapped in lime bark. It is also used by shepherds for signaling and communication in the forested mountains, and for guiding sheep and dogs. The "trembita" produces sounds altogether different from those of the Alpenhorn.Today it is often used in Ukrainian ethnograophic ensembles and as an episodic instrument in the Ukrainian folk instrument orchestra.
imilar instruments
*
Bucium - Romanian
*Alpenhorn - Swissources
*cite book |last=Humeniuk |first=A |title=Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty |publisher=Naukova dumka |location=Kyiv |year=1967
*cite book |last=Mizynec |first=Victor |title=Folk instruments of Ukraine |publisher=Bayda Books |location=Doncaster |year=1987 |isbn=0-908480-19-9 |oclc=19355447
*cite book |last=Cherkasky |first=Leonid Musiiovych |year=2003 |title=Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty |isbn=9665751115 |publisher=Tekhnika |location= Kyïv |oclc=56112444
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